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The Music Center's Artsource® Curriculum Pilobolus

Pilobolus Artsource Unit

The Brass Ring

The Pilobolus Dance Theater is unlike any other dance company.  It is an original, contemporary company that uses the body as sculptural material.  Its daring lifts, counterbalances, swinging mobiles and contact designs are created through an improvisational, collaborative process.  "The Brass Ring" premiered at the 2000 Olympic Games and weaves the themes of teamwork, competition and excellence throughout. The dance excerpt and lessons, most appropriate for grades 5 -12, feature physics principles and architectural concepts.  These applications to dance give step by step strategies for guiding students successfully through experiences that stress collaboration, improvisation and composition.  There are also many interdisciplinary connections to literacy. The universal themes for this unit are Transformation and The Human Family.

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  • Excerpt of 'The Brass Ring' by Pilobolus

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Excerpt of 'The Brass Ring' by Pilobolus

Credits

Video footage courtesy of Pilobolus Dance Theater. Pavane, Opus 50 (music) composed by Gabriel Fauré and performed by Earl Raney's Epic Brass Quintet.
All videos, audio tracks, and artwork on this page are for educational use only and is not to be reproduced

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